1984, and the following year he served in the soviet army, after which he entered the military red banner instituteussr ministry of defense in 1991 , he left the army, opened his first company and became an aviation broker. in the ninety-second year, he left for south africa, where he organized air transportation for the viktor bout airline at the airport caricatures was engaged in the transportation of flowers for household goods and legal military cargo, as well as the transportation of french and belgian military peacekeepers in 2002. belgium became the first state to accuse a russian of smuggling diamonds and money laundering and declared that on the international wanted list he had to curtail his business and return to russia in 2008, agents of the us drug enforcement administration, under the guise of colombian rebels, allegedly lured him to bangkok to conclude a deal for the supply of modern weapons and made complimentary buddha dictafo. which then became evidence in an american court on march 6 , 2008, was detained by the thai police. he was issued a warrant by a thai court on charges of he